DEATH ROW TRAFFICKER CHALLENGES CONVICTION

By Selina Lum Convicted Malaysian drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong on Wednesday made his third attempt to get the Court of Appeal to reopen his case and set aside his death sentence. This time around, his lawyer is fighting to overturn the conviction by ...

Lawyers for the former strongman are seeking to have him serve out his 60-year sentence in a hospital or under house arrest, but the doctors said this decision depends on an evaluation by Panama's Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.

Is Ohio's death penalty under its own death watch? Questions, criticism mount ...

Is Ohio's death penalty under its own death watch? Questions, criticism mount ...

By Reginald Fields, The Plain Dealer Associated Press fileThis November 2005 file photo shows the death chamber at the Lucasville prison. COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio's capital punishment system could be under its own death watch as scrutiny over how the ...

Victorian Edward Myatt should face death penalty - Indonesian Customs

Victorian Edward Myatt should face death penalty - Indonesian Customs

INDONESIAN Customs authorities are demanding that an Australian accused of attempting to smuggle hashish and methamphetamines into Bali be given the death sentence if convicted. While Edward Myatt's fate will ultimately lie in the hands of the ...

Madoff-Mets, News Corp., Goldman, Credit Suisse in Court News

Madoff-Mets, News Corp., Goldman, Credit Suisse in Court News

Madoff, 73, pleaded guilty in 2009 to orchestrating what prosecutors called the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, and is serving a 150-year sentence in a federal prison in North Carolina. The case is Picard v. Katz, 11-cv-03605, US District Court, ...

... serves his sentence at his home or in a hospital. Noriega returned to Panama on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 concluding his extradition from France after more than 20 years in US and French prisons for drug trafficking and money laundering.

Say NO to death for drugs

Say NO to death for drugs

When Paramjit Singh was sentenced to death for drug trafficking last month, he joined two other accused narcotics offenders on India's death row (despite reports that it was “a first” and “a landmark judgment”). The jubilatory tone in some media was ...

Israeli cleared of forging Jesus' brother's burial box relic

Israeli cleared of forging Jesus' brother's burial box relic

Mr Golan was indicted on 15 of the 18 counts, accused of a total of 44 separate crimes, the most serious of which carries a seven-year sentence. He spent the first 18 months under house arrest. In sharp contrast to the worldwide publicity that ...

Attorneys challenge witness accounts of San Diego bodies dissolved in acid for ...

Attorneys challenge witness accounts of San Diego bodies dissolved in acid for ...

Rojas, 32, was convicted of kidnapping in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison. He will be tried later this year on additional charges that may make him eligible for the death penalty, if convicted. Olivera and Valencia are charged with murdering and ...

Fostoria woman charged in smuggling

Fostoria woman charged in smuggling

A Fostoria woman may be charged with voluntary manslaughter following the overdose death of a fellow inmate in Huron County Jail, according to reports. While awaiting a Monday arraignment for theft, Mindy L. Gallagher, 22, 1207 E Peeler Drive, ...

Herhold: A Gilroy councilman with a past

Herhold: A Gilroy councilman with a past

The classic example is the used car dealer who says a vehicle was regularly serviced -- without saying that the last check found a faulty transmission. That question is at the heart of the woes faced today by tow-truck operator Dion Bracco, ...

By Angela Townsend, The Plain Dealer Thirty years later, early screening tests and improved antiretroviral treatments have transformed AIDS, an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, into a long-term chronic disease.

Opposition to Indonesian executions must be colourblind

Opposition to Indonesian executions must be colourblind

Photo: Tatan Syuflana The execution of the three Bali bombers in 2008 was a low point in Australia's opposition to the death penalty. Both the Howard and Rudd governments expressed their support for the executions, undermining Australia's commitment to ...

Lewis remanded to NCRJ

Lewis remanded to NCRJ

You are a convicted drug dealer." "I'm going to help you stay clean and take care of your unborn baby," Hummel informed Lewis, "at the Judge Hummel 'Detox Center' at the DOC." Lewis was ordered to serve the remainder of her original sentence and ...

Barrett legislation seeks to curb synthetic drug sales

Barrett legislation seeks to curb synthetic drug sales

Barrett said he'd like to see that penalty raised to a felony because of how dangerous the drugs can be. As an example, he mentioned a March 2011 party in Blaine where one man died and 10 other partygoers were hospitalized after snorting a synthetic ...

Ethical conflicts over approval of executions

Ethical conflicts over approval of executions

By Greg Ansley Umar Patek on trial for his part in the Bali bombings, faces the death penalty. Photo / AP Australia has been urged to cross deep emotional and political lines and oppose the execution of the terrorists who bombed its embassy in Jakarta ...

A Global Epidemic: Human Trafficking in Your Neighborhood

Sonia Ossorio, President of the National Organization of Women, discusses the commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls in New York City ... Rated: 4.0645161 Duration: 5552 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:37:41 PDT

Crime & Punishment

Crime & Punishment

consider a life prison sentence to possibly be the second worse penalty available, with the death penalty being the worst. This sentence is issued ... Rated: 4.9193082 Duration: 213 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:34:30 PDT

SDPs Lets Talk with M Ravi

SDPs Lets Talk with M Ravi

se. What we are dealing with here in Singapore is mandatory death sentence. That is, the judge who is passing death sentence cannot look into the ... Rated: 4.5555553 Duration: 593 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:36:21 PST

The eve of Thousand Moons: Archangels of God and Soul Descend to Lower Heaven to Accept Man Prayer

The eve of Thousand Moons: Archangels of God and Soul Descend to Lower Heaven to Accept Man Prayer

Voice of Zahra Bahrami for freedom and against barbarism (Farsi with English translation)

Voice of Zahra Bahrami for freedom and against barbarism (Farsi with English translation)

Bahrami. This should have been done while Zahra was in prison awaiting her death sentence, this could have been done to save her from execution ... Rated: 4.647059 Duration: 559 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:27:41 PST

Research: HIV/AIDS result sends shockwaves through the African American community

Research: HIV/AIDS result sends shockwaves through the African American community

Unite - US Zeitgeist 2010

Zeitgeist is about framing challenges and also taking action, how many people in audience, by show of hands, hear the challenges that Geoffrey is ... Rated: 3.8235295 Duration: 4471 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:42:13 PDT

Famous Mate Problems: "Death Sentence" (composer unknown)

Another "4-Knight Mate" problem, which we don't know by whom or when it was made. But it's a problem as excellent as Kurushima ... Rated: 5 Duration: 419 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:15:18 PST

The Case of Death Sentence - Episode 452

The Case of Death Sentence - Episode 452

Phone calls and technology have been one of the best inventions of man. CID get random phone calls and still they have to solve the case. Will ... Rated: 5 Duration: 2325 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:59:14 PDT

TOCs Mandatory Death Penalty Campaign Video

theonlinecitizen.com is urging the Singapore government to grant a moratorium on the MDP for drug trafficking. There are many serious flaws in the ... Rated: 4.0588236 Duration: 463 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:16:02 PDT

Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick Should Have Been Executed [Uncut Video]

person could do such an despicable things to animals. But to advocate the death penalty is bit harsh and does not serve a purpose in our society ... Rated: 2.0149255 Duration: 246 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:08:16 PST

3 PINOYS ON DEATH ROW IN CHINA - BINAY LAST DITCH EFFORT TO SAVE THEM - WALANG PERSONALAN DAW

3 PINOYS ON DEATH ROW IN CHINA - BINAY LAST DITCH EFFORT TO SAVE THEM - WALANG PERSONALAN DAW

Candlelight Vigil at the Russian Embassy (Sub: Eng, Spa, Hun, Rus)

is also prevented. I come from a country that still practices the death sentence for traffickers and drug users. More than that I have a brother ... Rated: 5 Duration: 271 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:15:33 PDT

The 700 Club - July 25, 2011 - CBN.com

The 700 Club - July 25, 2011 - CBN.com

through to really remember where he was, how near death he was, and what a miracle he is. He is proof that you can stare death in the face and the ... Rated: 3.3333333 Duration: 3572 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:33:41 PDT

Sho Baraka - 100 (with lyrics)

Sho Baraka - 100 (with lyrics)

themselves they want things but its Jesus they better get cuz hell's their life sentence like a subject and a predicate sometimes I see the ... Rated: 4.9761906 Duration: 197 seconds Video type: YouTube Hosted by: www.youtube.com on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:25:41 PST

Dutch police break fear of juju | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

On Monday, Ada Solomon Osaikhwuwuomwan was found guilty of smuggling Josephine and 16 other women, and sentenced to seven years in prison, one year short of the maximum sentence in the Netherlands for this offence. ... For Warner ten Cate, Dutch National Public Prosecutor for trafficking in human beings and people smuggling, this is a major victory -especially the fact that the court of appeal in Leeuwarden found Solomon guilty of human trafficking and ...

Aquino’s challenge: Filipinos on death row in China, elsewhere ...

... those behind the drug trafficking ... China, to almost certain death. The identification, prosecution, conviction ... 3069 Aquino’s challenge: Filipinos on death row in ...

Death Penalty for Offenses Other Than Murder | Death Penalty ...

... death of the victim, only two people were on death row ... Second conviction for rape of a child under 14; first ... Trafficking in large quantities of drugs (18 U.S.C. 3591(b))

Taliban-linked Afghan convicted on drug charges - KWQC-TV6 ...

Federal Death Row Prisoners | Death Penalty Information Center

Death sentence overturned by 6th Circuit (Aug. ... Lighty, Kenneth, Black, MD, 2005, Kidnapped and murdered an alleged PCP dealer and son of a Washington , ... but the executions were stayed because of a challenge to the lethal injection ...

Heroin smuggler challenges Singapore death sentence | World ...

Mar 15, 2010 ... Heroin smuggler challenges Singapore death sentence ... Changi prison, where Singapore's death row prisoners are held. .... to hang a teenage drug dealer undermines progress and puts the island state back on the fringe ...

Singapore: Drug Laws & The Death Penalty | SAVE VUI KONG ...

... trafficking – for which, a conviction often leads to the death ... challenges to the manner in which the death ... on death row in Singapore for drug trafficking ...

The Federal Death Penalty System - the United States Department ...

To recommend a sentence of death, the jury must determine that the ..... crimes other than murders (e.g., assaults and drug trafficking), (3) avoid venue problems ...

Death Penalty News

14 hours ago ... A 25-year-old Saudi prisoner who was on death row at the general ... According to the report, all the prisoners were convicted of drug trafficking and there were two ... He has a new lawyer who faces the daunting challenge of ...

Where Bears Roam Free: Yet another twist in the long loopy Yong ...

Yong was sentenced to death in November 2008 for trafficking 47.27 grammes of heroin. Under the law, anyone found guilty of importing more than 15 grammes of heroin could face the death sentence. Yong was 19 when he ...

Under Malaysian law, a person convicted of possessing more than 50g of methamphetamines is declared a drug trafficker and faces a mandatory death sentence. Ms Scivetti said she was .... Keller tries to derail Keith Hampton's candidacy; Mark Bennett to challenge Hervey as Libertarian - It's a rare day when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals makes the news for anything but the occasional overzealous death penalty ruling or suborning some ... 7 hours ago ...

Death Penalty Issues - Truth in Justice

Though unanimously rejecting Dennis Lawleys constitutional challenge of his conviction and death ... Now he waits on death row while his final appeal before execution ...

The Case Against the Death Penalty - Cons, Anti Death Penalty ...

... ignores the fact that anyone trafficking in ... California (highest death row population ... data show that about one in 12 death row prisoners had a prior homicide conviction.

DEATH ROW TRAFFICKER CHALLENGES CONVICTION

Convicted Malaysian drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong on Wednesday made his third attempt to get the Court of Appeal to reopen his case and set aside his death sentence. This time around, his lawyer is fighting to overturn the conviction by arguing ...

Florida Laws on Capital Drug Trafficking | eHow.com

Florida Laws on Capital Drug Trafficking. Florida has long been a hotspot for drug ... death penalty. Drug traffickers found to employ minors may also land on death row.

The Case Against the Death Penalty - Cons, Anti Death Penalty ...

A considerable time between the imposition of the death sentence and the actual ... punishment ignores the fact that anyone trafficking in illegal drugs is already ..... So far, legal challenges against this substitution of lethal drugs have not ...

After Chia was arrested, prosecutors pressed 26 charges - including at least one capital charge - against Chia but subsequently withdrew all of them, citing difficulty with the evidence in securing a conviction. Chia was granted a discharge ... The issue of prosecutorial discretion emerged recently in drug trafficker Ramalingam Ravinthran's appeal against the death penalty after his accomplice was prosecuted on a non-capital charge. Mr Ravi was also Ramalingam's ...

UN drugs agency wont take stand on swifter executions

Mr Viroj was speaking at the launch of a 123-page annual report about challenges facing the global ... of drug offenders whose appeals against conviction are rejected and who are awaiting execution on death row. Pol Gen Adul Sangsingkeo, secretary-general ...

Harsh Punishments for Drug Use in Southeast Asia

Schappelle Corby - convicted of smuggling almost 10 pounds of marijuana into ... Indonesian drug laws prescribe the death penalty for narcotics trafficking and up ... New Anti-Narcotic Law Will Effectively Help Combat Drug Problems (Voice of ...

The Innocence Project - Facts on Post-Conviction DNA Exonerations

Facts on Post-Conviction DNA Exonerations [Print Version] There have been 289 post ... • 17 of the 289 people exonerated through DNA served time on death row. • The average ...

Death row inmate Eaton challenges conviction

Daily News and Updates (as of 12/22/96)

The many problems support the arguments of death penalty opponents, including this ..... is declared a drug trafficker and faces a mandatory death sentence.

NIGERIAN JAILED FOR TRAFFICKING 17 WOMEN TO HOLLAND ...

According to RNW on Tuesday, Osaikhwuwuomwan was sentenced to seven years in prison, one year short of the maximum sentence in Holland for the offence. Seven other members of his gang, including his wife, received ...

In addition to being raped by her trafficker and his clients, Shamere described how she was forced to help traffic other young girls, and the consequences of challenging her trafficker's demands. ... For Shamere, the explanation is simple: “When you think about someone who would beat someone in such a way that they're close to death, just for going out there to sell their own bodies, to make money,” she explains, “And while they're in such danger on the streets, [their ...

The Death Penalty in Singapore

... Singapore single mother awaits death row in Malaysia for drug trafficking. ... Dead End for Constitutional Challenge ... court in Eus appeal against his conviction ...

Top of the Morning: ICC Issues First Verdict; Pakistan Peackeepers ...

He now faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The court cannot impose the death penalty.” (Guardian http://bit.ly/wm7GCI). In a Landmark Case, Pakistan Courts Convicts Two Peacekeepers in Haiti. The issue of ...

Singapore: Drug Laws and The Death Penalty - International ...

... to drug trafficking – for which, a conviction often leads to the death ... Legal challenges to the manner in which the death ... death row in Singapore for drug trafficking ...

Additional Innocence Information | Death Penalty Information Center

A. Partial Innocence - Conviction Reduced. Other defendants, though not exonerated completely, were released from death row having ... exercise of its peremptory challenges ...

Capital punishment for drug trafficking - Wikipedia, the free ...

Crime · Death row · Last meal · ... have been issues about having the death penalty for drug trafficking ... Second conviction for drug trafficking: hanging: Indonesia

Capital punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In many countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is ... has roughly 140 people on death row for ... World Factbook ^ Heroin smuggler challenges Singapore death ...

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